Visual Timeline: Stupa

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600 BCE - 300 BCE: Stupas are tombs for holy men constructed of heaps of earth and stone.
 
 
268 BCE - 232 BCE: Reign of Mauryan King Ashoka the Great who decrees thousands of Stupas built across India in honor of the Buddha.
 
 
258 BCE - 232 BCE: Ashoka the Great oversees the construction of the Great Stupa at Sanchi; sends Buddhist missionaries to other countries who bring the form and function of the stupa with them.
 
 
 
 
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